https://www.ipswichriver.org/08/27/acknowledging-the-agawam-honoring-the-pawtucket-and-the-true-history-of-this-land/ The Voice of the Ipswich River Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.ipswichriver.org/08/27/acknowledging-the-agawam-honoring-the-pawtucket-and-the-true-history-of-this-land/#comment-11072 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:13:57 +0000 https://www.ipswichriver.org/?p=59442#comment-11072 Thank You, or as my Navajo friends say , A’ hee’hee’. I have learned so much in my 35 years of visits with the Dine’ but enjoyed reading of the people that once lived where I live. I once wrote a rebuttal editorial after a few hikers on the Bay State Trail in the Georgetown area wrote an article for our newspaper making great mention of the plaques denoting areas of “Slaughter” of white families by the Indians”. I presented in my article some accurate history including the words of the plaque mounted in the state house back then announcing the reward for Indian scalps, including those of children. This history is so important, and as you write, there are no living tribal members still here to bring it forth. Excellent, I look forward to more history of the native people, especially as they interacted with the Ipswich River. As I used to dig clams, my old friends and I would often talk of those that were here before us as we dug. We appreciate you writing this story.

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